1) The workaround in the page you linked is unecessarily complicated/slow. Here's a better one:
Code:
var %checktext = $gettok(%checktext,1-,32)
Alternatively, you can do a //tokenize 32 %checktext and have $1- filled with the text stripped of multiple spaces.


/.timerQ 1 0 echo /.timerQ 1 0 $timer(Q).com